While Nilan wears the CH on his heart, he talks about where he would stick a Bruins logo on his body.

Other topics of discussion include what it was like for Nilan growing up in Boston as a Bruins fan, who his childhood hockey hero was, and which Boston player he hated to play against the most.

Stubbs digs into his hockey history books and tells the story about how the Bruins got their name — it has a Montreal angle to it — and Nilan recalls what triggered a bench-clearing brawl he was involved in at Boston Garden during the Canadiens’ 1985-86 Stanley Cup-winning season.

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Yes oh we are all looking for a Montreal vs Boston, NOT. Why? So they can injure our players and lower our chances of moving on? You know if we start beating them they will get away with bloody murder by the reffs. Screw that, I’d rather play someone else more chance of moving on with the players/roster.

While I agree with what you`re saying I am not so sure the Sens or Leafs wouldn`t pull the same crap. Ottawa players admitted the game plan was to get in the face of Price because he was just getting back from injury. Translation: run him and try to re-injure him. That crap comes from McLean to the players and Carlyle is an even bigger ass when it comes to that stuff.

Search for stream2watch. Habsonlinetv is an annoying site that is NEVER updated. You can always catch up to 7 different streams on stream2watch. That is my main source for habs games. 99.9% of the time it has the habs games.

I have a feeling that tonite we will be very disapointed. remember that boston beatdown a few years ago.,well tonight will be a carbon copy of that. bruins will be wanting to show who is the master in the jungle, and it wont be pretty.
Heard aron ward on TSN before, he called josh jorges “the glue that keeps the montreal defence together”. give me a freaking break. jorges is glorified cheerleader. rah rah

Yeah, I hadn’t checked Erikson’s current stats. I was going on what he had accomplished in the past. You know what’s his story this year? Injury? Emergence of rookies? I’m wondering, only boston games I watch are against the habs and don’t know much about that team

Snow coming down very steady here. They are calling for 25 cm. It is very fine snow, and getting colder.
Should be crazy around here after the game, but we will be very cosey a the pub!
Wish the kid was in between the pipes tonight.

Firing Julien was a huge mistake. He could have stayed in Montreal and given the franchise consistency. Just like some of the other coaches around the league such as Babcock or Trotz. None of the coaches who have replaced Julien in Montreal have been any better.

Have a great time, Ian. It’s rather fitting that the president of HI/O is at the game tonight against the Bruins. If you get the chance, please tell Brad Marchand to f’ off courtesy of 24 Cups.

Other than interim Cunneyworth, every Hab’s coach that has followed Julien had or has a better points% than Julien’s .531 as the Hab’s coach.

Therrien’s .614 in his 2nd stint as Hab’s coach so far is the highest points% since Claude Ruel’s .648%. To be fair, Therrien was a 500 coach in his first stint and is a .543% overall as a Hab’s coach (still higher than Julien). Therrien’s record is much better this time around.

Not happy to see Parros in Press Box. Last game Bruins avoided him like the plague. At least we’ve still got Murray and Tinordi for some crease cleaning muscle. Yeah, White’s not his usual “feisty” self these days.

I’m really not worried about that angle. Thornton is a junior-league pugilist at best nowadays, and with all of Tiny, Murray, Prust and Moen in the lineup I very much doubt the Broons will go overboard with the monkey business tonight.

Hi Snowing pretty good here now!HIO gang! We are at the hotel now. Just finished a great sit down conversation with Claude Jullian. He is still a very fun fella to talk with. But my last parting words were, great talking with you Claude, but you had better not give us a dirty game tonight. He laughed and said that he was still a HAB fan but they didn’t want him anymore! It was a great half hour. My son and I are going to enjoy this win, and going to Hurley’s after the game.

Habs-Bruins rivalry is the best/worse depending on how you look at it. Does anyone remember Bruin Hilda? In 71 they had her on the radio, she would cast spells on the Bruins players..like Derek Sandersons mustache will grow and tangle in his skates..We eleminated the Bruins that year, my parents packed us in the car and drove to the airport to meet the players. There at the airport was Bruin Hilda..I met Jean Beliveau, Ken Dryden, Frank Mahovolich, and Guy Lapointe..got their autographs..it was so exciting..to this day I love playing and beating the Bruins..

Love Nilan – Love the way he played and learned the game from so many great Habs – Love his Habs story – Always loved his honesty – Loved the way he battled the most ‘Evil Demons’ life could throw at him…and how somewhere, somehow, found the inner courage to fight his way back to Life…

Yet, from the past, did not love his way about going about things believing he was bigger than the team-turned on a coach, then forced Serge to trade him.

There is no doubt that Nilan is fun to listen to – he has a great way about himself, yet perhaps HIO could do better that featuring Nilan ALL the time.

There are many GREAT former Habs players living in Montreal.
It would be fun and interesting to get some other greats on the show once in a while, instead of the same old-same old.

We may be in 4th place, but Therrien’s lack of long-term vision is harmful to the team and to individual players’ growth.
His methods go against what the team previously announced in terms of player development, and that’s what rankles most here.
This is quite evident when watching the on-ice product: there’s only one line producing, the rest are either playing a mostly defensive style or are almost useless in their roles.

The “one line producing” that cannot be broken up (Patch/DD/Gallagher) have played together at even strength for 477 minutes and the team has scored a a total of 24 goals during that span. The problem is that while these three are on the ice together the opponents have scored 25 goals.
The team averages one goal for every 20 minutes and allows one goal every 19 minutes when this line is on the ice. (even strength)

It would not be any great risk for this line to be dismantled.

Compare to the line of Briere/Plek/Gionta who have played together for 170 minutes at even strength during which time the team has scored 10 goals and allowed only one .

The team averages one goal for every 17 minutes and allows one goal every 170 minutes when this line is on the ice. (even strength).

The ONLY line that should never be broken up on this team is the line of Briere , Plekanec and Gionta.

I posted a short blog/article called
“Douglas Murray (& Habs Management) Exposed”.

The problem with him as well as Habs mgmnt,is that they think they’re smarter than everyone else. How do you explain having 6 players 5’10 and under when the entire Western conference has 5. And leaving Parros out of the lineup vs an angry B’s team,even though we’ve beaten them both times this season and even handled them physically.This isn’t Pollock and Bowman

2-0 vs. Boston,out-hit them and they have not pulled any of their normal crap with him in the lineup. Prust is too hurt to fight and White is playing like a Lady Byng candidate.See what happens tonight